Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas